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Peter Schickele (/ ˈ ʃ ɪ k əl i /; July 17, 1935 – January 16, 2024) was an American composer, musical educator and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring his music, which he presented as being composed by the fictional P.D.Q. Bach.
Jan 17, 2024 · Peter Schickele, an American composer whose career as a writer of serious concert music was often eclipsed by that of his antic alter ego, the thoroughly debauched, terrifyingly prolific and...
Composer, satirist, performer, recording artist, radio host—Peter Schickele is internationally recognized as one of the most versatile artists in the field of music. In 2015, the New Yorker hailed Schickele as “a latter-day Haydn…the one American composer whose name makes everyone smile.”
Peter Schickele is acknowledged as the foremost classical music satirist of all time. He is the sole discoverer of work by the mythical Baroque composer P.D.Q Bach (1807-1742), the “pimple on the face of music” who has earned legions of fans across generations and continents.
Jan 26, 2024 · BIANCULLI: The composer, musician, author and comedian Peter Schickele died last week. He was 88 years old. Schickele had a serious background in classical music. He played the bassoon...
- Terry Gross
Jan 18, 2024 · Schickele was a Grammy-winning musician who created the fictional composer P.D.Q. Bach, a satirical take on Johann Sebastian Bach. He also wrote scores for film and Broadway, and performed his own works as a conductor and pianist.
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In 1954, a young scholar named Professor Peter Schickele, rummaging around a Bavarian castle in search of rare musical gems, happened instead upon a piece of manuscript being employed as a strainer in the caretaker’s percolator.
